Thune says Democrats have taken ‘the federal government as a hostage’ amid shutdown fight

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said connected Sunday that Democrats person taken “the national authorities arsenic a hostage” amid hostility implicit a looming authorities shutdown. “Thirteen antithetic times, we did continuing resolutions successful the Democratic majority. And successful each case, they passed,” Thune told NBC News’s Kristen Welker connected “Meet the Press.” “And what…